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Monthly Archives: March 2024
Frank Herbert Explains the Origins of Dune (1969) | Open Culture
Conducted in Herbert’s Fairfax, California home in 1969 by literature professor and science-fiction enthusiast Willis E. McNelly (who would later compile The Dune Encyclopedia), the interview goes down a number of intellectual byways that will be fascinating to curious fans. In its eighty minutes, Herbert reflects on everything from corporations to hippies, the tarot to Zen, and Lawrence of Arabia to John F. Kennedy. The late president’s then-just-beginning sanctification in America gets him talking about one of Dune’s threads in particular, about the “way a messiah is created in our society.” The elevation of a messiah is an act of myth-making, after all, and “man must recognize the myth he is living in.”
Source: Frank Herbert Explains the Origins of Dune (1969) | Open Culture

CMMC March Close Up or Macro – Cee’s Photo Challenges
The prisoner who shaped Torrance, Boyle Heights & Little Tokyo – AsAmNews


…George was passionate about his curriculum and sought a challenge. He wanted to take algebra but his teacher failed to provide a recommendation for him. Despite being one of the top two students in math class and obtaining A’s in every class, George had one disadvantage; he was a minority student. Before the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, Holleback and LAUSD schools had an unwritten policy to direct minority students to vocational school…
Source: The prisoner who shaped Torrance, Boyle Heights & Little Tokyo – AsAmNews
Catharine Rampell: Immigration Boosted Our Economy by $7 Trillion | Diane Ravitch’s blog
…As a result of these immigration-driven revisions to the size of the labor force, “we estimate that, from 2023 to 2034, GDP will be greater by about $7 trillion and revenues will be greater by about $1 trillion than they would have been otherwise.”
Got that? The surprise increase in immigration has led a multitrillion-dollar windfall for both the overall economy and federal tax coffers…
Source: Catharine Rampell: Immigration Boosted Our Economy by $7 Trillion | Diane Ravitch’s blog
World Food Program says IDF blocked trucks delivering food to Gaza – UPI.com
The World Food Program said its delivery of crucial aid into Gaza was blocked by Israeli authorities as the U.N. reports starvation among Palestinian civilians.
The United Nations organization said on Tuesday that a convoy of 14 trucks carrying food to northern Gaza was turned away by the Israel Defence Forces after waiting three hours at a checkpoint in Wadi Gaza…
Source: World Food Program says IDF blocked trucks delivering food to Gaza – UPI.com

On This Day, March 6: U.S. begins daytime bombing of Berlin in WWII – UPI.com
Review: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins | Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

Review: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
I really enjoyed the second reading of this book, The Hunger Games, which is the first in the Hunger Games series, (well, I enjoyed reading it the first time, but it was even better in the original English, the second reading around), and this cool fan art placed in the Public Domain by a kind artist, Cor-Sa, whose original page appears to be gone, now, via Wikimedia Commons. This is the second or third time I’ve read this book, but my first time reading it in English…
♫ Sharing The Night Together ♫ (Redux) | Filosofa’s Word
Dr. Hook’s version in 1978 that made the song a hit. I cannot find much info about the song or its origins, other than that it reached #6 in the U.S. and #3 in Canada in 1978, and #43 in the UK in 1980…
Source: ♫ Sharing The Night Together ♫ (Redux) | Filosofa’s Word
Comforting Thought: Sunrise by Mary Oliver – Content Catnip

You can
die for it –
an idea
or the world. People
have done so,
brilliantly,
letting
their small bodies be bound
to the stake,
creating an unforgettable
fury of light. But
this morning,
climbing the familiar hills
in the familiar
fabric of the dawn, I thought
of China
and India
and Europe, and I thought
how the sun
blazes for everyone just
so joyfully
as it rises
under the lashes
of my own eyes, and I thought
I am so many!
What is my name?
What is the name
of the deep breath I would take
over and over
for all of us? Call it
Whatever you want, it is
happiness, it is another one
of the ways to enter
fire.
Mary Oliver
Source: Comforting Thought: Sunrise by Mary Oliver – Content Catnip

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